The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-16
ABOUT PEOPLE ANb THINGS.

THE burglar who recently broke into Senator
Mahone's bedchamber and carried off $50 claims
that it was simply an act of REIMBURSEMENT.
THE Bishop of ARGYLL while recently journey
ing through Algeria was arrested as a spy by q
French officer, but was soon released with pro-
fuse apologies.
GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA, when in this coun-
try, said: 81 object to two things in America
the pie and the hotel child. Not until the
child is made into pie will tolerate either"
HENRY WATTERsoN has been directed by his
physician to cancel all his engagements for pub
lie spt king in the Kentucky campaign. He
will spend the summer with his family at Block
Island.
MISS SARAH ORNE JEwETr is spending the
summer at her home in South Berwick. Maine.
Early in the autumn she will 60 to Manchester
by-the-Sea, Mass, where she will be the guest of
Mrs James T. Fields
THE latest labor organ is of the most in
terestng. It is printed in Brooklyn, and is call
ed the Independent Workman. Its popularity
is that it represents the rights OF the individual
workman against the tyranny of trade organiza-
tions.
Mr. THOMAS HARRISON, a brother of ex-
Mayor Carter Harrison. of Chicago, is spending
the summer at Martha's Vineyard. Many years
ago he was known as the 'boy preacher" and
acquired a considerable reputation for conduct
ing church revivals.
fourteen years been almost constantly suffering
from an incurable and intensely painful malady.
but is seldom heard TO complain. Her min ETY.
years have not impaired the vigor of her mind
or the retentive power of her memory.
FORMER Lapeer county farmer, now in
Dakota writes to Lapeer friend: Eyes, this is
Gods own country-because no one else wants
it. Will be back / can raise the
money. Am 5000 poorer than when we left old
Lapeer two years ago"
CHARLES MERRIAM. just deceased, one of the
founders of q. & G. Merriam. of Springfield,
Mass, publishers of Webster's Dictionary, had
a marked influence on the history of spelling at
along the lines of etymology and analogy.
SUsPENDER JACK, the cowboy. who is at
loRgerheads with Captain Bogardus, pants for
the latter's b BOD with true backwoods fervor
'.All want. ile says sis to be in dark room
with Bogardus. Let each Of us be given gun
and a cigarette. We can take aim by the ire in
each others cigarettes"
A business in Shetland ponies is being
built up in this country. Fifty bred ponies
landed in New York the other day. They have
gone to a Kentucky stock farm. Many bogus
Shetlands sold in this country The pure
breed is very small. No genuine Shetland pony
is more than fortytwo inches high, and they
sometimes not over thirty-two inches.
SAYS District Attorney MARITIME. of New York:
II have never had occasion to employ any de-
tective agency but that in the citys regular
vice. What Byrnes can't discover am content
to go without knowing He is a marvel to me-"
It appears that one time Sharp planned to es-
cape. One of the persons he going to de-
pend upon IN his flight detective acting
under Inspector Byrnes' secret orders.
Mr.. GEORGE KENNAS is living in a house in
Washington owned by Mr. Brown, Garfelds
private secretary. Attached to this house is a
freproof room built to hold the papers and manu-
scripts Of the late President These Garfield
papers have been stored elsewhere, and Mr..
KEENAN, uses the room to hold the very valuable
papers and documents he has collected for the
purpose of writing his series of articles prison
life in Siberia
SHAKESPEARE seems to have been very well
up in most of the slang phrases of the present
day. In Henry III" we have too him. in
king john come off" and lyon are 100 green
and fresh;v in "A Winters Tale" "What2
Never7, and, although he does not exactly use
the exclamation rats we have in Hamlet" "A
ratl rat!n which is pretty near it. John Bun
yam used the phrase lit is cold day in con-
nection with adversely.
The friends of Bishop Taylor's African Mis-
sions, which are not supported by any mission
airy society, have. in tho past eighteen months.
contributed nearly so, 900 to maintain them. be-
sides supplying $4,000 to build the Bishops
steel Congo steamer, which has cost $4,000
Many OF the stations in Angola now raising
much of their food supplies. and thus largely
sclfsupDortine. Seven missionaries have died.